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Getting Bread

I like it when I come up with a tune and record it from start to finish in one session. This tune happened tonight September 2nd into the 3rd 2022.
Drums - Stylus RMX and EZ Drummer 3
Synths - Omnisphere
Bass - Encore Blaster into TH3 amp software.

The title "By all the stars" comes from "The Trigan Empire" comic books which i first encountered as a 5 or 6 year old in the mid sixties in a magazine called "Look and Learn".
Last Saturday I won £75 on a split decision win for Ukrainian World heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk over Anthony Joshua so I bought some beer and after i had drunk the beer i bought all three volumes of "The Trigan Empire" 
I'm half way through Volume 2 and I am loving the nostalgia.
War, Mystery, Betrayal, Conquest, Good versus Evil, etc. etc.

By All The Stars

October 2022
Piano - Keyscape (including Backwards piano reverb effect
Pulse / Funeral march synth - Omnisphere
The secret formula to recording the "Backwards piano reverb effect" - 
is written below - 

 record piano (midi track)
then record that track to an audio track
then reverse that track and add a long reverb effect
then record that track to another audio track
then turn that recording from a backwards track to a forward's track
Job done; the backwards reverb is heard before the piano note.

Music inspired by death, life and tomorrow.
Image from my garden of a Mini sunflower called "SunBelievable - brown eyed girl"
Good luck Ukraine.

Expectational Forecastations

This is one of my 'lounge series' acoustic thingies.  A simple one-take song/story for voice and piano.

Listen

Listen, I want to tell you, I respect you, I admire you
Listen, I want to open up, enfold you with my heart
You’re looking closed up, I’m feeling shut down, is there no place we can meet?
I’ve lost the shape now, words have vanished, think I’m talking in my sleep

And you’re not even listening, no you never even heard
Now you drown me out, shut me down, I’m bewildered and I’m hurt

Listen, I want to tell you, what’s the point in carrying on?
Listen, I’m giving up now, just can’t take this pain of losing
You’re looking closed up, I’m feeling shut down, is there no place we can meet?
I’ve lost the shape now, words have vanished, think I’m crying in my sleep

And you’re not even listening, no you never even heard
Now you drown me out, shut me down, I’m bewildered and I’m hurt

Listen, I need to tell you, how I love you deep inside
Listen, goddamn you listen, it’s no use, you run and hide
Been building walls up so long now, you’ve walled yourself away
If I come too close, you’re cornered and you toss my love away

Then I notice that you’re crying, in a small and subtle way
But there’s no way in to hold you, so I have to walk away
And I realise your pain now, the parts of me you heard
had to drown me out, had to knock me down, you couldn’t bear my words

And it’s all over now, the phone keeps ringing
and there’s really nothing left for us to say
it’s all over now, I watch you as you turn and walk away

Listen...

Never Say Goodbye

when your blue sky turns to grey
and the wind blows your dreams away
never mind
things will work out
the wind will change
there's no doubt

just remember
to thank your lucky stars
up there shining
your lucky stars

when your grey sky turns to blue
and the sun shines down on you
that's OK
it's just another day

say hello
to your lucky stars
just remember
to thank your lucky stars

are you lucky?
are you unlucky?
either way
you are always right
heads or tails?
you decide
before the coin falls
you decide
are you lucky?
are you unlucky?
as the coins spin 
thank your lucky stars
before the coins falls
thank your lucky stars
and you might just be surprised
as the coins spin
before the coins fall
you decide
heads or tails?
you decide
you decide
are you lucky?
you decide

Music written on keyboard
three fingers chord on CDE - FGA - BCD
Guitar - C - F - G
Words by Deeply Dazzled
Sung by Deeply Dazzled
Spoken by Loraine' the Text to Speech App
Bass and Vibes and Synths - Omnisphere
Drums and Percussion - Stylus RMX and Superior Drummer
Image - "Catch a lucky star" - Deeply Dazzled - Marker pen on blackboard thru Paint.net
Harmonica solo thanks to Wine, Beer and positive thinking.

Lucky Stars

A very rough home recording of my cover of Tallest Man On Earth's beautiful tune. Recorded in my room. 

Acoustic guitar, vocals, piano, violin, and cello all done by me.

The Revelation Blues - Tallest Man On Earth

maquete nr 2
just an idea

home recording

Daniel Garcia- Dont think about tomorrow ( maquete2)

I have had a cold for a couple of days, it started with a sore throat and then a blocked nose and when you wake up the next day your voice is a couple of notes lower than it used to be, and it sounds good. Suddenly I can sing along to Chris Rea songs and that Crash Test Dummies song (Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm) I feel crap but my voice is gloriously low and rough.
I also need to pee more frequently and when I do so I find myself in the bathroom singing that deep voiced Lee Marvin song "I was born under a wandering star" 
So now after decades of this rare phenomenon of my voice going deep every 2 or 3 years,  I have at last recorded my gloriously deep voice for all to hear.
I like this deep; voice when it visits me, and I will miss it when it has gone,

Getting Bread

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